Thread: Fully feathered

Lovely work Bob. What sort of timber and finish?

I note you use two t-tracks on the fence. Why do you choose to fit 2 tracks and what is the benefit of the lower track?

Damn you, I've just purchased three yellow Veritas ones and I could have saved myself money making them myself

Originally Posted by Knurl

Lovely work Bob. What sort of timber and finish?

I note you use two t-tracks on the fence. Why do you choose to fit 2 tracks and what is the benefit of the lower track?

Damn you, I've just purchased three yellow Veritas ones and I could have saved myself money making them myself

Thanks Knurl. The featherboards are made from jarrah floorboard offcuts (I kept every offcut longer than about 6" from our big renovation and they have been incredibly useful). Finish is just a light pale boiled linseed oil wipe. It's a pity my dusty broke down before I oiled a couple and they got pretty dusty while they were drying.

The two track fence approach is just a copy of Greenie's and others designs. The fence is quite high (250mm) and I can see that the lower track will be useful for working with small cross sections. I have also thought that at some stage I could replace the lower one with a mitre track for a fence mitre.

The feather boards were dead easy to make. I cut a couple of metre long x 20mm wide strips of 6mm thick MDF and then cut them up into 150mm long bits. Then you just the bits down one at a time alongside the TS fence and rip, add another and rip, add another etc. A 4mm kerf makes a 2mm feather. Rout 5/16" slots and there you go. Cost is effectively the price of knobs and T-track bolts but you could go cheaper still with 1/4" bolts and wing nuts.

Thanks Bob.

A lot cheaper really. I've just cut these knobs from scrap crapiata and 25mm dowel on the jigsaw. A few smoothies on the belt sander. A dab of glue, drill the holes and a bit of Loktite and Bob's your Uncle ...sorry about the pun. They're intended for my new sail-track Triton WC2000 TS add-on fence guide (about 150mm high). The template for the knobs came from a plastic one I bought at Bunnies for about $4.

And that's why I asked all the questions.

So basically the track could be your only outlay and I paid $10 for 4 metres.

(The Loktite's for a bench clamp)

Originally Posted by Knurl

Thanks Bob.

A lot cheaper really. I've just cut these knobs from scrap crapiata and 25mm dowel on the jigsaw. A few smoothies on the belt sander. A dab of glue, drill the holes and a bit of Loktite and Bob's your Uncle ...sorry about the pun.

Neat knobs, I gonna have to make some as I have an application for bigger versions of custom made knobs like yours.

Cheers

PS You could also use some teenuts on the appropriate side of the knobs.

T nuts are one of the options for the the fence knobs.

I plan to use threaded inserts.